I came across this issue on my newly built Solaris 10 server. I was able to ping a remote machine by Ip address, but not by its hostname. This indicated that I had the correct route and gateway. Using nslookup and dig I verified that the DNS servers were resolving the hostname to IP...Read more »

The quickest way to recover from a total disaster is to have some sort of replication implemented. There are two different methods of real-time replication, hardware and software. My experiences with software replication such as Symantec Veritas Volume replicator for AIX was not pleasing. It required constant maintenance and troubleshooting. The best is hardware...Read more »

Here is a list of files that you need to edit when changing the IP address of an interface in Solaris 10. /etc/hosts /etc/hostname.interface-name /etc/nodename /etc/defaultrouter /etc/resolv.conf /etc/netmasks Add the ip address and server name to the host file. vi /etc/hosts 10.0.0.10 server-name Select the interface you want, your server may have more than...Read more »

Open the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Click on System – Storage – PERC 5/E Adapter (PCI Slot 1) – Connector 0 (RAID) – Enclosure – Physical Disks. This will display all the Disk Drives in the right window. Under the column Available RAID DISK Space, you should be able to determine if there is...Read more »

The find and grep command is very handy when searching for files that contains a specific word. Both the find and grep commands are universal in Linux and Unix and the syntax is very similar. Below is an example. find /home/andrew -type f -exec grep -H ‘networks’ {} \; This will display all files...Read more »

I ran across a situation where my volume was running low on free disk space. In order to prevent my application from crashing, I had to either expand the volume or move the application files to a larger volume. Well, in this case the volume was created with Veritas and I wanted to move...Read more »

The sendmail-largeboxes.cof file is used to display warnings for large mailboxes.Â The default configuration is hard coded to consider 40MB+ as large.Â Users will receive email warnings that they have exceeded the 40MB mailbox size.Â You can change the default 40MB to a different value.Â On my Fedora Core 4 installation the file is...Read more »